Integrating Elasticsearch with Spring Boot for Book Search: A Step‑by‑Step Guide
This article explains why MySQL LIKE queries are inefficient for search, introduces Elasticsearch as a high‑performance alternative, and provides a complete Spring Boot integration tutorial—including version compatibility, Maven dependencies, Java configuration, entity mapping, repository interfaces, service and controller code, and testing steps—to implement CRUD‑style full‑text search for a book catalog.
